Zeyez Engineering Update

Zeyez is very excited to announce
that it continues to grow its engineering team. Zeyez now has
top quality engineers working full-time on Electrical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, and Software & Firmware development of the glasses. We are all working together to finalize the
design of the Zeyez circuit board, ensuring that we have all the electrical
features we need in the smallest physical size possible.

So far we are happy with how the
design is shaping up. We’ve been able to eliminate a lot of bulk in the earpiece
areas and hinge areas, which contributes to a sleek, discrete pair of glasses.

ME next steps:

Finalizing the hinge. We must ensure that the electrical cabling
running through the hinges does not bind or break as it bends through the
earpiece. We’ve designed a hinge that should perform well, we are preparing to
test this hinge design to ensure that it can handle 100,000 folding and unfoldings
of the earpieces without breaking any wires inside)

Review molding strategy for power wiring. We’ve devised three unique methods for
transferring electrical power from our battery in the left earpiece to our
circuit board and camera in the right earpiece.
We’ll be reviewing these methods with our potential manufacturers in China
to develop a production process for running this power bus through a thin
sunglass frame.

EE next steps:

Finalize camera module selection. We’re currently evaluating camera modules,
with the goal of final selection within the next 4 weeks.

Finalize CPU selection. We’re currently evaluating 2-3 promising CPUs
for the on-board Zeyez circuit board.
Some processors offer more power at the expense of a larger, less sleek
circuit board. Other designs are a
little slower, but also smaller and less power hungry.

Antenna placement and evaluation. We need to verify that our antenna gives us
the wireless streaming performance that we need, despite being a very small
antenna. We’re evaluating a few
different antennas in a few different locations within the right earpiece. Our goal is to maximize streaming performance
over BlueTooth4.0, while minimizing the SAR (specific radiation absorption)
exposed to the wearer of Zeyez glasses, we still have a lot of testing to do
here.

SW FW next steps:

Our SW/FW team is currently working closely with
the EE team to implement streaming to our Zeyez system over Bluetooth 4.0,
using Android and iOS platforms.

Currently, the development tools available for Windows Phone don’t
appear to allow us to implement our app on their platform.

We are also building the look and feel of the
Zeyez App (designing the controls that will allow you to record, review, and
livestream with Zeyez through the App).

Schedule update:

We have an additional 8-12 weeks
of designing and testing we need to conduct before our design will be ready to
give to our manufacturers for mass production.
At this point, we need to make a very large investment with our
manufacturing partner to build and buy the tools and equipment we need for mass
production, as well as pay for the electrical parts (batteries, cameras, flash
memory) for our first production run.
This is a significant cost (over US 1M), so we need to make sure we have
the design 100% right before this important point in the project.

After we’ve kicked off our first
mass production run, it will take our manufacturer an additional 12-16 weeks to
get their assembly lines built, tuned-in, and up to speed. During this time, we will be assembling small
batches of Zeyez eyewear to test out the assembly lines as they come
together. We are planning on building
these pre-production glasses for our Kickstarter fans, ensuring that you get
your Zeyez eyewear as soon as possible and well before mass-market
availability. 24-30 weeks from now, our
manufacturer should be able to ship us the first mass produced batch of Zeyez
eyewear ready for sale. We can’t wait to
get there, we’re working as fast as we can to build our team and get these
glasses out to the world as soon possible.

Regardless of the fine print, Kickstarter is as guilty as Zion Eyes. Why on earth would you release 350K to someone who only asked for 55K for development? Talk about irresponsible! The rest should've been held until a working prototype was demonstrated. Long and short; Zion Eyes robbed the bank, Kickstarter drove the getaway car. Where is the justice department???

Superbacker

Since its only a 720p camera, they could just pay for the actual companies that are producing them to rebrand some ZIONeyes. The entire point of this, at the time, was there was nothing similar available. Now, even if they are doing their best, its obvious, it just isn't good enough.

It will be interesting to see how the Kickstarter people handle this situation, if they do anything at all. If they do nothing, KS may well become a hub for fraudsters, as there will be no downside for ripping people off.

What is sad is that a great idea was dumped. I believe the people involved with making the poor re-branding and manufacturing decisions be identified by name so all of us investors can avoid them and any of their future projects.....nothing personal, it's just business.

Superbacker

Just a reminder to anyone that would like to get a refund, or even see Zion Eyez provide an update -- you may wish to request the Attorney General of Washington get involved. If nothing else, it might spur Zion Eyez to provide an update. Not that I expect them to actually provide information in an update, but it's worth a shot. You can file an online complaint here: https://fortress.wa.gov/atg/formhandler/ago/ComplaintForm.aspx

Don't forget the people that backed this project , me being one of them no update for a long time you need to let us know at what stage your up to now ,as I said befor we are the backers if it wasn't for us you wouldn't be where you are now so show us a little more respect thanks.

It's been over 5 month with 0 (zero) update from you guys. Would you please provide an update?

The pressing question seems to be - "Will you ship at all?"

Competition aside from Google glass, ZionEyez is still very unique to the market, and it should still sell well even though you're later to the market than planned.

If I learned one thing from managing technical projects myself, it's to always keep your stakeholders informed, or risk backlash.

You are fully accountable to fullfil your obligation by shipping something, even if it's in beta, or missing certain funtionality. If you can ship something, then do a firmware/software update at a later time, please do! Apple/Microsoft/etc do this all the time, and I don't see why you couldn't follow the same go-to-market strategy. This would also provide some additional funding from non-kickstarter sales to finish whatever you're apparently stuck on.

We'd all like an update to where you're at. I'd like to believe that the ZionEyez are noval to most of us, and something to play with, but our money is not. The longer you wait, the more fuel you're adding when/if backlash from an angry stakeholder heads your way....

Give us something, even if it's a littel tid bit. Silence isn't helping at all.....